Woodland Pattern Book Center
  • Address 720 East Locust Street | Milwaukee, WI 53212
  • Phone 414.263.5001
  • Hours Tue-Fri 11-8pm | Sat-Sun 12-5pm | Closed Mon
  • Hours Tue-Fri 11-8pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm, Closed Mon
Event Calendar ↓
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readings & workshops
April 6 - Jun 27

Book Club: Readshops led by Karl Gartung

readings & workshops
July 3 - Dec 30

Dhamma MKE

readings & workshops
October 22 - Dec 31

Welcome Home!: A Veterans Writing Group

readings & workshops
November 10 - Dec 8

Shifty Subjects and Unexpected Endings

exhibitions
December 8 - Jan 25

To Sight's Limit

readings & workshops
December 12

Poetry Reading: Eric Baus & Siwar Masannat

readings & workshops
December 13

Reading: Milwaukee Queer Writing Project

special events
December 15 -15

Woodland Pattern's Annual Open House

performances
December 19

Formations Series for New and Improvised Music

December 23 - Jan 1

CLOSED

special events
January 25 -26

26th Annual Poetry Marathon and Benefit

Archived Exhibitions

  • Oct 5 Saturday
    October 5, 2019
    exhibitions Opening Reception for Chain of Events: Tyanna Buie
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  • Oct 5 Saturday
    October 5, 2019 - November 24, 2019
    exhibitions Chain of Events: Tyanna Buie
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  • Sep 14 Saturday
    September 14, 2019
    exhibitions AVIARY: Selected Paintings by Ken Wood - Book Release and Reception
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  • Aug 1 Thursday
    August 1, 2019 - September 26, 2019
    exhibitions The Point Being: Works by Thomas Gaudynski
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  • Jul 5 Friday
    July 5, 2019 - July 28, 2019
    exhibitions AVIARY: Painting by Ken Wood
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  • Jun 12 Wednesday
    June 12, 2019
    exhibitions Closing Reception for There Again, the Disappearance
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  • May 9 Thursday
    May 9, 2019 - June 12, 2019
    exhibitions There Again, the Disappearance: Maria Gaspar, Vaughan Larsen, Valaria Tatera
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  • Feb 16 Saturday
    February 16, 2019 - March 17, 2019
    exhibitions Exhibition - Rachel Eliza Griffiths: bruise bullet flower
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  • Nov 28 Wednesday
    November 28, 2018 - January 31, 2019
    exhibitions Vanessa German: Defiant Show of Unity
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  • Nov 9 Friday
    November 9, 2018
    exhibitions Artist Talk: Molly Hassler
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  • Nov 1 Thursday
    November 1, 2018
    exhibitions Opening Reception for Fragile Not Found: Molly Hassler, Anika Kowalik & LaNia Sproles
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  • Nov 1 Thursday
    November 1, 2018 - November 25, 2018
    exhibitions Fragile Not Found: Molly Hassler, Anika Kowalik & LaNia Sproles
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  • Oct 6 Saturday
    October 6, 2018 - October 28, 2018
    exhibitions Exhibition - Ugly Duckling Presse: 25th Anniversary Celebration
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  • Sep 12 Wednesday
    September 12, 2018 - September 29, 2018
    exhibitions Exhibition: Diana Barrie and Pamela Barrie
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  • Apr 22 Sunday
    April 22, 2018
    exhibitions Opening Reception for Woman: Frailty Thy Name, works by Renee Baker
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  • Jan 31 Wednesday
    January 31, 2018
    exhibitions Book Launch: Poor and Needy: an exhibition on art, migration, and debt
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  • Dec 15 Friday
    December 15, 2017 - January 28, 2018
    exhibitions Text, Textile, Exile: Works by Maria Damon
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  • Oct 11 Wednesday
    October 11, 2017 - December 3, 2017
    exhibitions Exhibition: Jen Bervin, Tactile Language
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  • Sep 23 Saturday
    September 23, 2017 - September 23, 2017
    exhibitions Reception: Vicki with an i, organized by Michelle Grabner
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  • Aug 25 Friday
    August 25, 2017 - October 1, 2017
    exhibitions Exhibition: Vicki, with an i, organized by Michelle Grabner
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  • May 4 Thursday
    May 4, 2017 - June 11, 2017
    exhibitions Exhibition: News from the Homefront, Recent Works by Jeff Morin
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  • Mar 17 Friday
    March 17, 2017 - April 16, 2017
    exhibitions Exhibition: Kweerblam! - A Queer Zine Art Show
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  • Jan 10 Tuesday
    January 10, 2017 - January 22, 2017
    exhibitions Exhibition: Museum of Advice
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  • Dec 4 Sunday
    December 4, 2016 - February 26, 2017
    exhibitions Elephant House: Photos by Dick Blau
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  • Sep 15 Thursday
    September 15, 2016 - October 30, 2016
    exhibitions In the Gallery: Celebrating the Art of David McLimans
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  • May 27 Friday
    May 27, 2016 - August 28, 2016
    exhibitions Between a Portrait and its Other {guest curated by Debra Brehmer}
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  • May 6 Friday
    May 6, 2016 - May 6, 2016
    exhibitions Exhibition Closing: Signments: Works by Jeffry Chiplis
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  • Apr 8 Friday
    April 8, 2016 - May 8, 2016
    exhibitions Signments works by Jeffry Chiplis {guest curated by Paul Druecke}
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  • Apr 1 Friday
    April 1, 2016 - May 8, 2016
    exhibitions LocuStLed {guest curated by Paul Druecke}
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  • Feb 19 Friday
    February 19, 2016 - March 26, 2016
    exhibitions Like A Book: Artwork of David Dunlap {curated by Lane Hall}
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  • Oct 31 Saturday
    October 31, 2015 - January 31, 2016
    exhibitions NO QUIPU, NO BOOK works by Cecilia Vicuña
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  • Sep 19 Saturday
    September 19, 2015 - October 18, 2015
    exhibitions Printing Matters: Books, Ephemera and Photos by Susan E. King
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  • Sep 19 Saturday
    September 19, 2015 - October 18, 2015
    exhibitions Accordion Publications from the collection of Stephen Perkins
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  • Apr 1 Wednesday
    April 1, 2015 - May 15, 2015
    exhibitions Poem Image/Poem Object: Eric Nelson & Josie Osborne
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  • Nov 13 Thursday
    November 13, 2014 - January 31, 2014
    exhibitions Glyphs and Glyphic Poems
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  • Nov 13 Thursday
    November 13, 2014 - January 31, 2015
    exhibitions Glyphs and Glyphic Poems by Edward Sanders
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  • Sep 19 Thursday
    September 19, 2013 - October 31, 2013
    exhibitions Between Possibly & Bone: Photographs & Video by Cecelia Condit
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  • Aug 4 Sunday
    August 4, 2013 - September 15, 2013
    exhibitions Sounds Take Shape: The Visual Art of Music in the Midwest
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  • Mar 20 Wednesday
    March 20, 2013 - April 30, 2013
    exhibitions Gaylord Schanilec - Midnight Paper Sales
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  • Jan 26 Saturday
    January 26, 2013 - February 28, 2013
    exhibitions Anne Kingsbury A Personal Odyssey: Drawings from the 1960's & Woodcut Self-Portraits
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  • Sep 16 Sunday
    September 16, 2012 - October 31, 2012
    exhibitions "Paradise in the Smallest Thing" Collaboration and Process by Caren Heft
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  • Feb 23 Thursday
    February 23, 2012
    exhibitions Marsha McDonald: River Paintings and Mo Shui (Ink Water)
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  • Aug 18 Thursday
    August 18, 2011 - September 25, 2011
    exhibitions In the Gallery: Hal Rammel: Comix & Cartoons
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  • Apr 14 Thursday
    April 14, 2011 - May 31, 2011
    exhibitions In the Gallery: Photography by Tom Pickard and Chuck Stebelton
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  • Oct 17 Sunday
    October 17, 2010
    exhibitions Three Wishes: Maps, Cranes and Love
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  • Aug 1 Sunday
    August 1, 2010 - October 3, 2010
    exhibitions Drawing / Reading / Drawing : a personal practice
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  • Mar 1 Monday
    March 1, 2010 - May 31, 2010
    exhibitions 30th Anniversary Woodland Pattern Archive Exhibition
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  • Oct 1 Thursday
    October 1, 2009 - November 30, 2009
    exhibitions Boolah Hayes: Assemblages
    Steve Nelson-Raney: Photographs
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  • Jun 20 Saturday
    June 20, 2009 - August 30, 2009
    exhibitions Quemadura Design Exhibition
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  • Jan 30 Friday
    January 30, 2009 - April 19, 2009
    exhibitions The Graphic Poem
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  • Sep 20 Saturday
    September 20, 2008 - December 31, 2008
    exhibitions Configurations
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  • Jul 27 Sunday
    July 27, 2008 - August 24, 2008
    exhibitions The Hysterical Alphabet
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  • May 31 Saturday
    May 31, 2008
    exhibitions Devotion to Thread
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  • Apr 12 Saturday
    April 12, 2008 - May 10, 2008
    exhibitions Seeing Green: Art, Ecology, and Activism in Milwaukee
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  • Jan 1 Tuesday
    January 1, 2008
    exhibitions The "Home" Show
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  • Dec 2 Sunday
    December 2, 2007 - January 1, 2008
    exhibitions Ineffable Isthmus
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  • Jun 10 Sunday
    June 10, 2007 - October 29, 2007
    exhibitions Memory Palaces
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  • Apr 1 Sunday
    April 1, 2007
    exhibitions Joel Lipman: Origins of Poetry
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  • Feb 4 Sunday
    February 4, 2007 - March 15, 2007
    exhibitions Anne Kingsbury: Repetition and Discipline
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  • Sep 25 Monday
    September 25, 2006 - November 12, 2006
    exhibitions Sailors & Saints: Book Art of Jeffrey Morin
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  • May 9 Tuesday
    May 9, 2006 - May 13, 2006
    exhibitions Julie Chen Events
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  • Feb 1 Wednesday
    February 1, 2006 - May 31, 2006
    exhibitions Tom Raworth
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  • Oct 1 Saturday
    October 1, 2005 - December 1, 2005
    exhibitions Thomas A. Clark and Laurie Clark
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  • May 1 Sunday
    May 1, 2005 - September 1, 2005
    exhibitions Jonathan Williams
    Portrait Photographs
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